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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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Right after the entrance ceremony ended, I went straight to the training room in the dormitory.
Today, I planned to use ‘Selection and Concentration’ on mana attunement.
Decomposing the mana energy generated by Schlus’ internal circuit into mana to strengthen the body…… It was theoretically perfect.
However, since it involved handling mana energy, I couldn’t help but feel nervous. Last time, I had almost died just from releasing a tiny bit of mana.
“Phew. Let’s give it a try.”
I changed into a thin short-sleeved shirt, just in case I ended up spitting out blood, so as not to make a mess. ‘Selection and Concentration. Use on mana attunement.’
The time limit was 3 seconds. Before the 3 seconds were up, I quickly began to infuse mana into the internal circuit.
Then, a loud noise occurred, and my whole body became hot. Basically, the role of the internal circuit was to decompose mana into mana.
The decomposed mana would circulate along the circuit, evenly distributed throughout the body to strengthen various parts.
Depending on the form, there were also differences such as strengthening the body’s toughness or flexibility.
However, Schlus’ internal circuit, which was intricately intertwined and tangled, could hardly perform the role of decomposing mana and only generated a large amount of mana energy due to strong resistance.
Even if mana was decomposed into mana, the amount was almost equivalent. But when decomposing mana energy, the mana increased by about 1000 times.
This was the fundamental reason why the Mains were strong. It was a realm that could never be reached with human-level mana attunement.
“Grrrr……”
While excruciating pain spread throughout my body, I felt the sensation of mana rising. I stopped the circuit’s operation just before the 3-second time limit ended.
Although mana was no longer being charged, it still felt like strength was surging through my body. Did the decomposed mana remain even after the circuit’s operation was stopped?
“Hah!”
I tried running across the training room as a test. My body, which shot forward like an arrow cutting through the wind, instantly crashed into the wall on the opposite side of the training room.
I never dreamed that I would become so fast that it would be difficult to control…… Kwang!
When I struck the sandbag with my fist, a loud sound rang out, and the sandbag burst. Compared to when I exploded Iskandal’s head last time, the power was far lacking, but it was clear that it was a strength surpassing human limits.
“Phew……”
The presence of mana that made my body feel light disappeared completely after about 5 minutes. After that, I returned to my original, frail body.
5 minutes, huh. For 5 minutes, I could have physical abilities rivaling those of a high-ranking knight. If I used ‘Selection and Concentration’ on strength or agility, I could project overwhelming force for 3 seconds.
But even if it was a bit weaker, considering the duration of 5 minutes, there would definitely be situations where it would be better to use it on mana attunement like this time.
“Ah……”
A warm liquid flowed down my philtrum. When I wiped it with my hand, it was indeed a nosebleed.
Even if the attunement stat was extremely high, it seemed it couldn’t decompose mana energy 100%. Still, I only felt a sense of exhaustion throughout my body, and it wasn’t to the point of collapsing like last time.
The amount of mana I had just injected into the internal circuit was 100.
If I injected all of Schlus’ maximum mana capacity of 1000, it would become 10 times stronger…… but the residual mana energy would also increase by 10 times.
I would really die then. I didn’t think there would ever be a situation where I would inject all of my mana.
After finishing the test, it was time for sword training.
I grabbed a wooden sword and activated ‘Memory of True Self’ to peek into Schlus’ memories a bit.
This time as well, it was a memory of young Schlus learning swordsmanship from his father.
After 1 hour when the ability’s activation ended, it felt like swordsmanship had become familiar to my body.
However, I couldn’t erase the unpleasant feeling.
Every time I used this ability, it felt like I was gradually assimilating with Schlus……
“Ah. Damn……”
I stopped for a moment because my right arm was throbbing.
Although I had unwrapped all the bandages because it looked too flashy, my arm and fingers still ached.
There was no sign of the joints dislocating again, so it should be fine to keep using my arm like this.
“Yes. 5000 tirions…… Confirmed, and I’ll send it well. Do you have any message you’d like to convey?”
“No.”
“Understood.”
After swinging the sword for about 2 more hours, I stopped by the bank. It was to multiply my money as I had thought before.
The 10,000 tirions paid as the maintenance stipend was enough to live on for a month, but the more money, the better. Moreover, since I didn’t know when I might lose the top spot and have the money cut off, it was best to multiply the money as much as possible.
For now, I invested 5000 tirions, dividing it between the Shayden Guild and the Holy Knights Order. Both of them would rapidly rise from being nobodies after a big incident that would occur soon.
They were optimal investment targets for making money in a short period of time.
“Hmm. They’ve arrived.”
When I came to the dormitory, I saw three boxes stacked in front of the main gate. The contents were all thick books.
It seemed the books I had ordered had just been delivered. As the top student of the year, I could borrow any books related to academics for free, so I borrowed them all at once.
“Ugh……”
Only after going back and forth three times with all my strength could I move all the books to the training room. By the way, it would definitely be nice to have an attendant.
This mansion was too large for me to manage alone. It would probably turn into a dusty mess in less than 3 days.
I took out the books I had stuffed in one corner of the training room and opened them one by one. Starting with the most basic magic theory.
I wondered if I could reach the average level of a 1st-year student by staying up all night. I, who had recklessly jumped in-
“What the hell is this nonsense.”
I closed all the books I had opened in less than 10 minutes. Even though everything should have been read in Korean due to ‘Translation’, there was some alien language there.
Well, of course. There were a bunch of technical terms that I had never even described.
“View…… Tch.”
Using ‘View’ on the words was also useless. It seemed to be an ability that only reacted to objects. Because I couldn’t understand at all, I had to open even the elementary-level basic books to look up each term one by one.
So if you ask me if I understand now that I know all the terms……
“No, what the hell. What is this……”
That wasn’t the case either. It became even more difficult than before.
When I didn’t know the terms, I only vaguely knew it was difficult. But now that I had some understanding, I realized that the difficulty level was higher than I had imagined.
This was a bit hopeless. Forget about maintaining the top spot, I might have to retake all the subjects.
“Fucking hell. I can’t let that happen……”
I opened the magic theory book again. Let’s see who wins today, you or me.
I had to at least preview up to the 2nd week’s material to barely match the other kids. I was going to study until I could do it, no matter what.
[Quest: Successfully cast a gravity spell.]
[Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆]
[Reward: 1 Store Coin]
After roughly skipping over the basic theory part and moving on to magic practice, a quest appeared. Gravity magic. One of the most basic and easy spells.
Accordingly, the difficulty was also one star. Good. For today, let’s aim to achieve this quest first.
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“Ugh……”
I think I underestimated magic too much. No matter how basic a spell was, magic was still magic.
There was a reason why magicians were rare in this world. First of all, to use magic, one had to go through the process of intuitively understanding the concept of invisible formulas……
Many people couldn’t do this and never got to use magic in their entire lives. I was also putting in all my effort to combine this simple formula……
Still, as the author of this novel, I couldn’t show the shame of not being able to use a single spell. It shouldn’t be impossible if I utilized the metaphors and images I used when describing magic.
How many hours had I been engrossed in this? There were no windows here, so I didn’t even know how much time had passed.
Anyway, as a result of overworking my body for a long time-
“Oh. I did it.”
[Quest Completed]
[1 Store Coin is given as a reward.]
I became able to cast gravity magic. When I infused mana into the forcibly completed formula, the wooden sword lying on the floor floated in the air.
However, after a few seconds, the wooden sword trembled and fell back down. With 100 mana, I could only keep it floating for a few seconds.
“Haah……”
Feeling a sense of accomplishment and helplessness at the same time for finally succeeding, I lay down on my back. Schlus Hainkel’s mana stat was 1. Based on the unit used in this world, it was 1000.
It was low. Way too low. Since the average stat was 10, even people who couldn’t use magic usually had 10,000 mana capacity.
Moreover, people who were somewhat strong could reach 20,000 or even 30,000…… With 1000 mana, even if I knew how to use magic, I could only lift a wooden sword for a few dozen seconds.
To use a reasonably strong spell, it was essential to use ‘Selection and Concentration’ on the mana capacity stat.
No matter how I thought about it, there were too many situations where I had to use ‘Selection and Concentration’.
3 seconds a day was definitely too little, but was there no way to increase it?
“Ah. The store.”
Come to think of it, there was a store. I wondered if there would be a way to enhance abilities in the store.
[Store]
[You can purchase items using Store Coins.]
[Activates when all stats reach 10 or higher.]
“Ah, right.”
I had stupidly forgotten about it again. That all stats had to exceed 10 for the store to open.
This was really frustrating. By the time the store opened, it would probably be near the end of the novel, right?
“No, wait a minute.”
While looking at the store activation condition, I thought of a loophole. It didn’t say that all stats had to reach 10 or higher ‘simultaneously’.
Didn’t that mean I just had to get all stats to exceed 10 at least once, even temporarily? For example, if I used ‘Selection and Concentration’ to exceed 10 for just 3 seconds, wouldn’t it be acknowledged?
“The stats I’ve raised so far are calculation ability, strength, and mana attunement……”
Excluding the stats that originally exceeded 10, the remaining stats were stamina, agility, mana, and vitality, a total of 4. If my hypothesis was correct, I could open the store in the next 4 days by raising these four stats.
Good. The store opening, which seemed impossible forever, had come within 4 days. I was curious about what items would be available.
If it was nothing special, I might be a bit disappointed. Growl……
“Ugh. I’m starving to death.”
Only after hearing the sound from my stomach did I realize. I was currently in a state of extreme hunger.
Well, of course, since I hadn’t eaten anything since morning. It had been so long since I had concentrated like this that I had even forgotten my own personality.
That person used to always bring me food when I was writing in front of the computer, losing track of time…… No. Let’s stop talking about this.
“Oh, crazy.”
As soon as I opened the door, light poured in. I immediately looked up at the sky, and the sun was high in the middle.
12 o’clock in the afternoon…… I had been holed up in the training room all night and all morning?
Then, excluding the time I went to the bank in between, how many hours was that? Roughly 25 hours?
Realizing the time, I felt even hungrier for some reason. I bought groceries yesterday, so I should eat something.
“Hmm……”
I heard a presence coming from the direction of the main gate. Just as I thought it might be a guest, I quickly remembered who it was.
It was a small event that occurred the day after the entrance ceremony.
“Hello! I have come to volunteer as the attendant for this year’s top 1st-year student!”
“……”
As I came out to the main gate, three people standing side by side greeted me. Right. The event I mentioned was the selection of the 1st-year top student’s attendant……
And among the candidates, an incredible person had arrived.
“For now, everyone come in.”
“Yes!”
I stared at the pure-looking woman with black hair standing on the far right among them. She really matched the image I had imagined perfectly.
It was eerie.
“Is there something on my face?”
“…… No.”
Emilia Siegfried.
A spy belonging to the Trud Kingdom’s Intelligence Agency and…… The younger sister of the protagonist, Siegfried Hertlocker, had arrived.
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he plan short cuts. let’s hope that works
“Even if mana was decomposed into mana”
Its there something being lost in the translation? Mana is being used multiple times in the chapter, but they seems to mean different things in the same sentence
Author probably used components of a simple electric circuit. His body has naturally high “resistance” hence producing alot of “heat” (decomposed mana). Now the term mana decomposed into mana probably means a transformer, with either current to velocity or vice versa
Translator isn’t even trying
Thanks for the chapter 😁
Ah.. so it was also a temporary buff? I thought it would be something that that gradually make him stronger each time he used it. That’s a bit disappointing.
So she is the maid on the cover
Who used to bring foods? Hmmm?